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Career coach Gina Visram offers advice (and unusual) interview tips!
FIRSTLY, CONGRATS on getting to interview stage. Your application has stood out against countless others, now it's just about making that connection in person. Nerves may very much be coming into play here, which is natural - but by considering the below, you may be putting yourself ahead of the pack, by doing something a little bit different to other candidates:
TIP 1: Social Intelligence
Remember, interviews are all about getting to know you better, ultimately working out if you connect with the business and your potential new boss. Research by CareerBuilder.co.uk has shown that 53 percent of employers research candidates online - including on social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. Why should they have all the fun? You should be doing the same thing but not in attempt to catch anyone out - but in an attempt to get to know more about your interviewer. Remember, your upcoming interview is your chance to make a potential connection with the interviewer, so if you have any common ground, maximise on it.
Here's what you do:
1. Make sure you get the name(s)of your interviewers when the company calls or emails to tell you the good news of your interview - this is essential.
2. Check out their profile online both business and personal. This intelligence may be useful. If you find out that they are a competitive horseback rider and this was one of your favourite hobbies when you were younger, you can mention that winning a medal at a competition is one of your proudest life moments is (for example). If they have a full Linked in profile, you can also find out how long they've been at their current company and where they worked previously and if you have any similarities here, use that information as a way of connecting.
3. This may be stating the obvious, but it's all about using this intelligence sensibly. If Facebook told you that they had a 'big night' over the weekend - it is not your place to ask how they're 'feeling' if they have 'recovered' - no matter how friendly you can make that sound. Save that banter for when you get the job (if it's that kind of work environment).
TIP 2: Show and tell
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a demonstration of your claims may be worth a million. Regardless of what position you are going for, you can prepare a top three list of the things you would be keen to explore if you were to be offered the position, this could be an implementation from scratch or an increase of what's already being done.
Remember - your mission is NOT to claim that you know better than current employees (that may irk your interviewer), but to highlight that you've done enough research to have a clear idea of what you can really bring to the table. You can create this in a one-page proposal form, including a SWOT (Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis if you really want to go to town on it - a move which will clearly indicate that you have the ability to do what you claim you can do.
In interviews, remember not to forget any relevant work experience you have had that can demonstrate the skills you need for the job you are going for.
TIP 3: Fool Yourself out of your nerves!
Still worried that your nerves mean that you may hinder the opportunity you have? Here's an item you must take to your interview, however, this one is for your eyes only. This may involve a bit of a treasure hunt at home, but for this tactic, you need to have found a physical item which never ceases to make you smile.
From a silly photo of you and some friends to a comic book you used to love as a child; or a birthday card with hilarious cover art to a Linked In recommendation that you're proud of - maybe even something like a print out of the ridiculous lyrics of a catchy song or an image of your favourite meal. Make this object the last thing you look at before being called into your interview. Chances are, you'll meet your interviewer wearing a very real, sparkly smile... ensuring you make a dazzling first impression.
In considering adopting these tactics, bear in mind that they are an enhancement, not substitute for traditional interview tips such as preparing questions to ask your interviewer (a must!) and being well presented.. but they are designed to give you the edge by making you stand out in a positive way.
Good luck!
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University of Iowa Saxophone Ensemble: Contemplation
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This CD recording features The University of Iowa Saxophone Ensemble, Kenneth Tse, director. Widely recognized as one of the leading classical saxophonists in the world, Kenneth Tse is certainly one of the instrument's outstanding proponents. In 2010, members of The University of Iowa Saxophone Ensemble won top three awards at the North American Saxophone Alliance Classical Solo and Chamber Music Competitions, the national winner title of the MTNA Chamber Music Competition, and Silver Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Selected samples from University of Iowa Saxophone Ensemble: Contemplation
- DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- LACOUR: Contemplation
- MOZART: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
- MIYAZAWA: Versuch uber fractal
- GLASS: Klezmer Salsa
- GLASS: Sir Patrick
- SISKIND: Antiphochrome
- KING: Cyrus the Great March
- KING: The Melody Shop March
- KING: Barnum and Bailey's Favorite March
- GIMENEZ: La Boda de Luis Alonso
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Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache.
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The court dismissed one of the two counts of promoting a sexual performance of a child and one of the dozens of counts of possession of child pornography on which James D. Kent was convicted. The court upheld the other counts against Kent, an assistant professor of public administration at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Kent — who said at his sentencing that he "abhorred" child pornography and argued that someone else at Marist must have placed the images on his computer — was sentenced to one to three years in state prison in August 2009.
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The decision rests on whether accessing and viewing something on the Internet is the same as possessing it, and whether possessing it means you had to procure it. In essence, the court said no to the first question and yes to the second.
"Merely viewing Web images of child pornography does not, absent other proof, constitute either possession or procurement within the meaning of our Penal Law," Senior Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick wrote for a majority of four of the six judges.
"Rather, some affirmative act is required (printing, saving, downloading, etc.) to show that defendant in fact exercised dominion and control over the images that were on his screen," Ciparick wrote. "To hold otherwise, would extend the reach of (state law) to conduct — viewing — that our Legislature has not deemed criminal."
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In other words, "the purposeful viewing of child pornography on the internet is now legal in New York," Judge Victoria A. Graffeo wrote in one of two concurring opinions that agreed with the result but not with the majority's reasoning.
Kent's attorney, Nathan Z. Dershowitz, told msnbc.com that he hadn't yet had a chance to talk to his client, so he couldn't discuss what they would do next. But he agreed with Graffeo that the ruling means that "in New York, there is no crime" in simply viewing child pornography.
All of the judges agreed that child pornography is an abomination, but they disagreed whether it was necessary to "criminalize all use of child pornography to the maximum extent possible," as Ciparick wrote in the majority opinion. The majority said that was up to the Legislature, not the courts, to decide.
Judge throws out child porn charge against Washington man
The technical details revolve around copies of deleted files that remained in the cache of Kent's Web browser, which were the basis of the two counts that were dismissed. They were discovered, along with other materials, during a virus scan that Kent had requested because his computer was running slowly.
To demonstrate possession of the images in the cache, "the defendant's conduct must exceed mere viewing," Ciparick wrote, adding that "the mere existence of an image automatically stored in a cache" isn't enough.
Furthermore, the prosecution failed to prove that Kent even knew his Web browser had a cache in the first place, writing, "A defendant cannot knowingly acquire or possess that which he or she does not know exists."
Dershowitz said the "real problem here is that legislation is not keeping up with technology," arguing that federal courts also haven't fully addressed the legal standing of images stored only in a browser cache.
The federal statute outlawing possession of child pornography — 18 USC 2252A — doesn't mention browser caches. The few cases that have examined the issue at the federal level — notably a 2002 federal appeals case involving a Utah man and a 2006 federal appeals case involving a visitor to Las Vegas — generally conclude that cached images alone can establish possession if the defendant knows about the browser's caching function.
Both courts noted that it was hypothetically possible for the defendants to be innocent if they were ignorant of the cache function.
"Those statutes are probably not quite as incomprehensible, but they are anything but clear," Dershowitz said.
Kent's convictions on the other counts rested on other evidence, including a folder on his machine that stored about 13,000 saved images of girls whom investigators estimated to be 8 or 9 years old and four messages to an unidentified third party discussing a research project into the regulation of child pornography.
"I don't even think I can mail the disk to you, or anyone else, without committing a separate crime. So I'll probably just go ahead and wipe them," one of the messages said.
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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Steve Martin is a new dad — and also darned good at keeping a secret.
The 67-year-old actor, writer, comic and banjo player welcomed his first child with wife Anne Stringfield, 41, his rep confirmed to People on Wednesday, providing no other details.
But don't go thinking that the child — gender unknown to the public — is an Aquarius. According to the New York Post's Page Six, which first broke the news, the wee one was born way back in December.
"They've had a baby, and how they kept it a secret nobody knows," a source told the paper. "Steve's very private."


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Apple released a new Xserve this morning with its typical flair, taking its online store down for around an hour or so. The machines have been rumored for some time—a Mac OS X 10.5.7 developer build even hinted at these new machines—and now they're finally available.
The new Xserve is indeed based on Intel's Xeon Nehalem CPU, a new architecture that promises better performance and more energy efficiency. This is the second Nehalem appearance in Apple's hardware, as the computer maker updated its Mac Pro last month with these CPUs.
The low-end Xserve's configuration has one 2.26GHz Quad-Core Xeon Nehalem CPU, 3GB of DDR3 RAM (using six slots, that's upgradeable to 12GB), and a 160GB 7200 RPM hard drive for $2,999. The second configuration bumps things up to an 8-core using two 2.2.6GHz Quad-Core Xeon Nehalem CPUs. It also has 3GB of RAM (with 12 slots upgradeable to 24GB) and a 160GB hard drive for $3,599. Upgrade options include up to two 2.93GHz CPUs in the second config, as well as 128GB solid-state drives for both configurations and 1TB drives for each bay.
The first Xserve configuration is shipping within 24 hours, while the beefier model has a lead time of 3-5 days.


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Courtesy of Charlotte49ers.com
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Behind balance scoring, the Charlotte 49ers (17-4, A-10: 5-2) defeated the Massachusetts Minutemen (14-6, A-10: 4-3) in front a sold out homecoming crowd in Halton Arena.
"It was a great team win," Charlotte coach Alan Major said. "I mean TEAM in capital letters. Everyone stepped up and contributed on a day when we honored former 49ers greats. I could not be prouder or our team."
The 49ers were led by E. Victor Nickerson who finished with 12 points just one point shy of his career-high. Nickerson, who got his first start in Atlantic 10 play, was 5-for-11 from the field. He also finished with five rebounds.
Ivan Benkovic finished with a career-high 10 points and hit three 3-pointers off the bench. Chris Braswell finished with nine points off the bench as Willie Clayton and Terrence Williams recorded eight.
Charlotte performance on Saturday included a well-balanced offense in which nine different players scored points. The 49ers' defense was just as impressive with 11 steals, 19 forced turnovers, and a 37-32 advantage on the glass.
The Niner bench outscored the Minutemen 32-9.
Fans weren't disappointed as both teams put on a thrilling performance especially in the final minutes of the game. The Niners led 63-60 at the 2:40 mark but the Minuteman didn't go away easily as Terrell Vinson, who scored 23 points, hit a 3-pointer to tie the game 63-63 with 2:13 left. Nickerson used two free throws to push Charlotte to a 65-63 lead at the 1:16 mark. Clayton hit one of his two free throws with 33 seconds remaining and Massachusetts' Chaz Williams, who scored 16 points, drove to the basket with 18 seconds left for a layup, slicing the 49ers lead to 66-65.
The 49ers were not able to convert on two free throws. Massachusetts had the last possession of the game but Charlotte's Henry stole the ball from Williams with three seconds left in the game sealing the 49ers victory.
After trailing the Minutemen for most of the first half, the Niners used a late run to take the 34-31 lead at halftime. The half featured seven ties but the 49ers took the first half lead for good with 1:54 left following a pair of free throws from Williams to taking a 30-28 lead, its first lead since the 11:45 mark. A Minuteman turnover led to Nickerson scoring two points off a fastbreak but UMass responded with a three-pointer to slice Charlotte's lead to 32-31. Nickerson closed out the half with a mid-range jumper with 22 seconds left. In the first half, Charlotte's bench outscored UMass 21-0 and took an 18-12 advantage of points in the paint.
Charlotte began the second half on a 6-2 run and took a 40-33 lead after a Nickerson jumper with 16:54 left. Clayton lifted the Niners to their largest lead of the game, 43-35 after converting a layup into a three-point play at the 15:21 mark. UMass evened the score for the eighth time, 44-44, with a 3-pointer by Chaz Williams at the 12 minute mark. Benkovic quickly answered with his second three-pointer of the game from the corner giving the 49ers a 47-44 lead with 11:40 remaining. Another Benkovic three pushed the 49ers lead to 50-44 with 10:48 on the clock.
Before the game, former Charlotte basketball players participated in the annual Alumni Homecoming Game. At halftime the former players were honored and recognized in a ceremony at half court.
Charlotte travels to Temple on Wednesday, Feb. 6 for an A-10 contest at 7 p.m.


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PARIS — French IT staff at Google, Facebook and other companies have won new protections against burnout: the right to unplug.
A new agreement with employers gives more than 300,000 tech-sector workers added guarantees that the "always connected" lifestyle enabled by smartphones won't infringe on their rights under France's famous 35-hour workweek.
Union official Michel de la Force told the Associated Press that the deal doesn't mean staff will be forced to turn off their phones at 6 p.m., as some media have reported. "They haven't read the agreement," de la Force said.
The deal gives workers at risk of burnout a right to disconnect, but does not change their working hours. The deal also only covers workers, such as consultants, who already have flexible schedules, not employees on fixed shifts.
The agreement between two French unions and two employers' federations for the technology and consulting industries came about after a court last year found previous working time protections in the sector to be insufficient.
De la Force, an official with the consulting and engineering branch of the CFE-CGC union, says the change is a matter of protecting workers' health.
"If someone is in a dangerous situation of overwork, this allows them to say 'no,'" de la Force said. But on a day-to-day basis, the agreement changes little. "This doesn't forbid someone from taking a USB key from the office and working at home," he said.
Details on implementing the 35-hour week in France are left up to each sector or industry through negotiations between employees and employers.


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The Latest on the U.K. court decision on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (all times local):
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A British judge has upheld a U.K. arrest warrant for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving his legal position unchanged after more than five years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
Judge Emma Arbuthnot said the warrant stands, rejecting a call from Assange's lawyers for the warrant to be revoked because he is no longer wanted for questioning in Sweden.
Assange has been holed up in the embassy since he took refuge there in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Swedish prosecutors were investigating allegations of sexual assault and rape made by two women in 2010.
Swedish prosecutors dropped the case last year, but Assange was still subject to a British arrest warrant for jumping bail in 2012.
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A British judge is scheduled to rule Tuesday on Julian Assange's bid to force Britain to drop a warrant for his arrest, a development that would remove a substantial legal hurdle to his leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London that has been his refuge for more than five years.
But even if Assange wins, he might decide to remain in the embassy because of fears over a possible secret U.S. indictment against him.
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Dolphin dies amid NY canal's industrial pollution
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ADDS THAT THE DOLPHIN HAS DIED - A dolphin surfaces in the Gowanus Canal in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The New York City Police Dept. said animal experts were waiting to see if the dolphin would leave on its own during the evening's high tide. A wayward dolphin that meandered into a polluted urban canal, riveting onlookers as it splashed around in the filthy water and shook black gunk from its snout, died Friday evening, marine experts said. .(AP Photo/Richard Drew)


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Princeton's Sims wins Nobel in economics along with visiting professor Sargent
Oct. 10, 2011 7:23 a.m.
Princeton University professor Christopher Sims has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist who is a visiting professor at Princeton, for "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy."
Sims, who is Princeton's Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking, has been a faculty member at Princeton since 1999.
A press conference will planned for later today on the Princeton campus. Details will be announced on the Princeton University home page.


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Gene vital to brain's stem cells implicated in deadly brain cancer
Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that activates brain stem cells to make new neurons – but that may be hijacked later in life to cause brain cancer in humans. The protein called Huwe1 normally functions to eliminate other unnecessary proteins and was found to act as a tumor suppressor in brain cancer. These findings, published in the August 18 issue of Developmental Cell, were co-led by Antonio Iavarone, M.D., associate professor of neurology and pathology & cell biology and Anna Lasorella, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and pathology & cell biology, both of Columbia's Institute for Cancer Genetics at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"By identifying the normal function of Huwe1, we were able to learn that deregulation of Huwe1 function is involved in tumor development," say Dr. Iavarone.
"This demonstrates that a gene's basic function must be understood before we can learn how it also plays a role in the development of cancer," says Dr. Lasorella.
During normal brain development, neural stem cells grow and divide rapidly before developing into neurons. To successfully change into neurons, they must remove all proteins that keep the cells in an immature, stem cell state. To understand how brain tumors develop, Drs. Iavarone's and Lasorella's teams decided that they needed to understand the development of normal neural stem cells. Their research demonstrated that Huwe1 is responsible for "crowd control" for the mechanism that regulates the stem cell mass in the developing brain – effectively weeding out unnecessary stem cell-specific proteins – and promoting neurogenesis. Without Huwe1, Dr. Lasorella discovered that in mice, too few mature neurons form in the brain, resulting in the brain failing to properly develop.
Because the stem cells and cancer cells share the capacity for rapid proliferation, but cancer cells have lost crowd control, Dr. Iavarone then looked for signs of Huwe1 alterations in human brain tumors. Compared to normal brain tissue, he found that Huwe1 activity in tumors was significantly lower than in normal brain tissue.
"The loss of Huwe1 may be an important factor in the development of brain cancer, suggesting that Huwe1 protein function may be used for new therapeutic targets to fight deadly brain cancer," says Dr. Lasorella.
"Our next step will be to analyze the structural changes in Huwe1, and research ways to restore this gene in brain tumor patients," says Dr. Iavarone. "In mice, giving Huwe1 back blocks the ability of normal stem cells to proliferate and develop tumors. We are hopeful that if we can restore Huwe1 activity in brain tumor cells resulting from Huwe1 deletion, then we can stop the tumor growth."
Considering the relevance of the new findings, the paper has been selected for feature on the cover of this Aug. 18 issue of Developmental Cell. The coverage image (available upon request by emailing email@example.com) shows the alterations of neural cells in the mouse brain carrying inactivation of Huwe1 with the superimposed molecular network responsible for those alterations. The network was assembled by the lab of research team member Andrea Califano, Ph.D., a computational biologist at Columbia University Medical Center's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Califano lab developed computational algorithms to dissect transcriptional and post-transcriptional interaction that helped the team analyze the data – pinpointing the role of Huwe1. Dr. Califano is professor of biomedical informatics and founding director of Columbia's new Systems Biology Initiative.
Brain tumors are among the most devastating cancers for both children and adults.
According to the American Brain Tumor Association, brain cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in patients younger than age 35. Approximately 17,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with brain cancer each year and nearly 13,000 die of the disease. The annual incidence of primary brain cancer in children is about 3 per 100,000.
Brain tumors do not discriminate. Primary brain tumors – those that begin in the brain and tend to stay in the brain – occur in people of all ages, but they are statistically more frequent in children and older adults. Metastatic brain tumors – those that begin as a cancer elsewhere in the body and spread to the brain – are more common in adults than in children.
Brain tumors are the most common of the solid tumors in children, and the leading cause of death from solid tumors. Brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children under the age of 20. Leukemia remains the first.
There are few effective treatments for brain tumors, which are typically very aggressive –necessitating high doses of chemotherapy, which may result in neuro-deficiencies and learning disabilities in patients.
Source: Columbia University Medical Center
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Gun-toting women look for best places to conceal pistols
ARGYLE, Texas — Women have about a quarter of the concealed carry handgun licenses in Texas, but unlike men, they often face a problem of where to conceal.
A purse is an obvious choice, but a gun isn't always easily accessible in a pocketbook. And traditional holsters are less than ideal.
"Most holsters have been built for men's bodies," firearms instructor Karla Pohl said. "Women are built differently, and we dress differently."
That has led to garter, ankle, waist-cincher and bra holsters.
"It's kind of a natural location depending on the size of the gun and the size of the 'guns,' " Carrie Lightfoot, owner of The Well Armed Woman, said of the bra holsters. "Women just need options because one day a woman is wearing a dress, the next day a suit and the next day exercise clothing."
But having a different holster for each outfit creates its own challenges.
"Each position will require a different draw because in the heat of the moment you can't say, 'Hold on a second. I don't know how to draw from this thing. I have to learn now.' It just doesn't work that way," Lightfoot said.
So practice is important, not just practice shooting but practice drawing and shooting from each of holster a woman might have so the entire action will be natural when it's needed, she said. That's why dozens of women came to Quail Creek Shooting Range here in Argyle, about 25 miles north of Fort Worth.
In Texas, the number of women issued concealed carry permits almost doubled last year from the year before; 67,000 qualified in 2013, Texas Department of Public Safety officials said. Elsewhere, more women also want to pack heat:
• In Florida, women were 22% of concealed weapon license holders as of May 31, up from 15% in 2004, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
• In Illinois, almost 12% of the 7,500 concealed carry applications filed with the state have been from women, according to WGN-TV, Chicago. State law began to allow the permits July 1.
• In Tennessee, women had been issued more than 30% of almost 193,000 handgun-carry permits in effect at the end of 2013, according to the Tennessee Department of Homeland Security.
• In Washington state, 100,000 of 451,000 concealed-carry permit holders are women, about 22%, according to the Seattle Times.
All states allow concealed-carry permits though requirements for eligibility vary, according to federal Government Accountability Office. Only the District of Columbia prohibits civilians from carrying a firearm.


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In one week, on January 11, Croatian presidential candidates Ivo Josipovic and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic face their final battle for the Office of the President. One of the more significant platforms pursued by Grabar-Kitarovic in her election campaign is "the return to where Franjo Tudjman stopped".
"He (Tudjman) is a man who gathered us all around the idea of freedom and independent Croatia and, led by him, the Croatian people and all the citizens who fought for Croatia, our state was created and it's now our duty to complete the work he started and take Croatia into prosperity," she said in December 2014 at the 15th anniversary of Tudjman's death.
When Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991 the communist Yugoslav Secret Police (KOS, UDBA) controlled a great deal and Croatia was faced with a brutal war of Serb/Yugoslav People's Army aggression. This was the time just after the "Berlin Wall" came down, promising freedom and democracy to Eastern European countries that had been suffocated by Soviet-led or Soviet associated communist regime for decades, since WWII.
Franjo Tudjman, announcing paths to freedom from the Yugoslav communist regime and democracy for Croatia started the tearing down of the "Berlin Wall" that had existed within former Yugoslavia since WWII. In the early 1990s Croatians, led by Tudjman, along with Slovenians and eventually Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia, turned towards West (while Serbia and Montenegro, along with those organised individuals in the other aforementioned Yugoslav states wanted communism to flourish, dug their vicious pro-communist heels in) and broke their ties with Yugoslavia, which was dominated by the Serbs. Most, but not all, from the Serbian minority in Croatia tried, with the help of the Yugoslav Army, to stop Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia. After several years of bloody armed struggle, Croatians managed to militarily defeat the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian rebel forces.
But this success of Croatian Homeland War veterans and their leadership was not to see uninterrupted the next phase that would entail putting into place all the necessary political, ideological, administrative and legislative actions within Croatia that would see Tudjman's path for a truly democratic and prosperous Croatia in action. The viciously ardent communists, led by Stjepan Mesic, staged and aided an all-out war of vilification against Tudjman and Croatian Homeland War Generals, setting their sights on criminalising the war and equating the victim with the aggressor. As the new Croatian state was formed during the Homeland War, the former Yugoslav communist Secret Police was not dissolved, allegedly because the new Croatian leadership could not risk an 'internal war' with the remains of the totalitarian regime. At the time Tudjman was to support lustration – removing from higher office those who were operatives of the Yugoslav Secret Police – the chase to vilify him as an ultra-nationalist who participated in joint criminal enterprise against Serbs in Croatia picked up and constantly threw dust into the eyes of those who wanted to work on further and more profound democratic changes in Croatia. (It took 18 years for the International Criminal Tribunal of Former Yugoslavia to peel off this vilifying coat when in 2012 Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac were acquitted of crimes they were charge with as Generals of Tudjman's army…)
By the year 2000 "reformed" communists came to power in Croatia, both in Government led by Ivica Racan and in Presidency of Stjepan Mesic. Ivica Racan's former Communist Party changed its name to "Social Democratic Party," yet everything else remained the same. They kept their close relationships with the Serbian minority in Croatia and the Serbs in former Yugoslavia – with the same old communists in their respective positions of leadership. Stjepan Mesic, having been ousted as parliamentary speaker in 1994 by Tudjman on account of his vicious and vilifying attempts to oust Tudjman from power, had meandered through creating new political parties to acting as independent to stay in power and continue his work on burying the democracy Tudjman had set as Croatia's goal.
Social Democrats and Mesic had pushed on with "drowning" Tudjman and Croatia's Homeland War and resurrecting communist Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito along with suffocating the efforts to bring communist crimes perpetrated during the times of communist Yugoslavia to justice. Croatia's current president Ivo Josipovic had picked up where his predecessor Mesic stopped and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic where Racan's government had stopped. Croatia had become a battleground where values of communist Yugoslavia were elevated above those of Tudjman, Homeland War and democracy and, hence, widespread corruption that has its roots in communist Yugoslavia continued to flourish no matter which political party was in government after year 2000.
"Instead of reforming the economy and cutting the government costs, Croatia continues to borrow and sell off national treasures, while increasing taxes. As of today Croatia is the EU member with the GST/VAT at 25%, and with the highest unemployment rate, especially among young professionals who increasingly seek relief from poverty and existential hopelessness abroad.
The Croatian media scene is dominated by the same people who used to glorify former dictator Tito. The current head of the national television, the "HRT," is Goran Radman, himself the last president of Tito's communist youth organization. This well-rehearsed team sends to jail or fires someone every week because of "corruption," in order to distract people's attention from the real problems. The vast majority of cases involve political opposition leaders.
The media is served a steady stream of "secret" witness depositions, demonstrating how the country is being robbed. At the same time the attention is drawn away from the real problems, concealing the fact that the fleecing of the country is carried out by the government itself.
Increased taxes, no investments, no encouragement for private investment projects, halting the funds earmarked by the EU – all this seems to be the hallmark of the Josipovic' regime" writes Dan Rados of The Daily Caller in his thought-provoking article titled "Is Serbia controlling Croatia by blackmailing its president".
All that and much more seems the hallmark of the politics of those who do not want a democratic and prosperous Croatia and they are those who remain loyal to the values of communist former-Yugoslavia. One wonders how much of this pro-communist Yugoslavia outlook has stopped Ivo Josipovic visiting again the protest-camp site outside Veterans' Affairs ministry building in Zagreb where 100% war-invalids have been rallying for changes and rights since October 2014! I.e., aloof faced, Josipovic has visited the protesting veterans on 24 October and has done not a thing then or since then in attempting to truly listen to the suffering veterans, to create or help create a constructive dialogue and seems unperturbed by and deaf at the veterans' plights. His excuse for failing to speak to the protesting veterans since late October is that he has invited them to visit him in his office! And this is the man who tries to tell the people that he too holds that independent Croatia of today is based on the values of Croatia's Homeland War (as well as antifascist)! The communists of today, such as Josipovic, seem brazenly and spitefully determined not to let Croatian Homeland War veterans achieve fully an upper hand they deserve.
Throughout the campaigning for the presidency of Croatia it has been so refreshing to come across a candidate like Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic who, unlike Josipovic, emanates with democratic justice, providing for citizens' and human rights for everyone based on the law of the country, due process and fairness. She is adamant in unifying the Croatian nation into working towards the goals set by Tudjman and, unlike Josipovic and the Social Democrat led government, appears to place Homeland War veterans above any former communist or antifascist crusader. With her victory on Sunday 11 January Croatia is surely to start breathing fairness and justice once again and the "Berlin Wall" will finally tumble down for Croatia just as it has many years ago for the other European countries adversely affected in the past by it. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)
Croatia: With Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic "Berlin Wall" To Finally Tumble Down
In one week, on January 11, Croatian presidential candidates Ivo Josipovic and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic face their final battle for the Office of the President. One of the more significant platforms pursued by Grabar-Kitarovic in her election campaign is "the return to where Franjo Tudjman stopped".
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President Josipovic's Bloody Totalitarian Pedigree which was hidden from the majority of the Croatian electorate both at home and in the diaspora as well as the world's mainstream media until recently exposed:
Ina, please forward Ms. Grabar-Kitarovic and HDZ these questions for clarification before election day, I believe I speak for more than a few Croats after watching the debate against current President Josipovic.
1. In terms of Presidential decorations to individuals and organizations, why did she not mention Josipovic's praise for, and authoring of the charter of, Documenta, an organization that worked closely with Savo Strbac (http://www.hic.hr/english/index_Strbac.htm) and his sham Milosevic-initiated NGO "Veritas" – who recently stated that "It is lawful to kill civilians in war" (http://www.sense-agency.com/icty/shepherds-exchanged-for-prisoners-sheep-buried-in-ovcara.29.html?cat_id=1&news_id=16209)?
2. What, at all, can be considered positive about Stipe Mesic's Presidency which skyrocketed the budget of the Office of the President, with the obscene expenditures for personal interest including a lavish Mongolia vacation at the expense of taxpayers, not to mention the slashing of the budget for funerals for veterans, getting rid of the reserve forces as well as mandatory draft, and the office of the presidency and bureaucracies under it's control, actively operating against Croatia's national interests, namely media agitprop against Gotovina and the Homeland War? Would a Grabar-Kitarovic presidency push for the a) Investigation into Mesic's monstrous and false claims – debunked by the initial UN study into Bljesak – to the US Embassy regarding both Operations Bljesak and Storm, as well as the non-chalant throwing around of Top Secret documents, and opening the Tudman Presidency archives to foreign journalists, many of whom were known to Croatian intelligence agencies to be spies? Will Mesic's perjury at the ICTY against Blaskic, Kordic, and the HVO, be investigated, in addition to Manolic's perjury against the aforementioned?
3. Will Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic push for, as President, legislation that would free Croatians from abroad and returnees from being double income taxed – with the nation of their pension or pay origin being the only tax they have to pay – so as not to waste time signing dual-taxation agreements (which are entire bureaucratic processes) to make Croatian political and economic emigre returns and retirements move smoothly and potentially be immediate for those who have the resources and desire?
4. Is the Visegrad Group a top political-economic-military priority, and will it be the number one agenda item in addition to closing all open questions with Serbia and RS in regards to missing persons, war damages, etc.?
5. Will being a member of both the German and V4 battlegroups be both strategic and tactical top priorities?
6. Does she support the creation of a Croatian Entity in B&H, or at least a confederalization of the Federation following the Swiss model – or at least at a minimum, respecting the pre-2000 Dayton agreement on-the-ground reality that existed?
7. If Serbia does not meet all Croatian requests for information and action regarding the war, will she as president do everything possible to prevent their entry into the EU?
8. Will Croatia with Grabar-Kitarovic as President, allow US, UK and Five Eyes intelligence services to violate Croatians' privacy at a 100 percent rate (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/04/nsa-auroragold-hack-cellphones/), as they have since 2012 with very unfriendly and invasive Auroragold spyware program?
9. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the US, UK and Five Eyes sat down and told they hand over all information gathered on innocent Croatian citizens to Croatian authorities and destroy their copies, otherwise face an Embassy recall?
10. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider the creation of an autonomous internet platform, something that can be replicated and exported for profit, with proper encryption procedures to protect citizens identities and freedom of speech, to lessen the invasive and criminal, out of control Five Eyes Orwellian surveillance practices which is nothing short of creating a file on every citizen and their social network for social control and future blackmail?
11. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see a very public stance, and demand signed agreements for non-spying by EU and NATO allies on Croatia, and visa versa, nor spying on Croatian citizens outside of permission from both Croatian parliament and the respective national security committees and intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies, limited solely to organized crime and *actual* (not thought crime) terrorist threats – namely human trafficking, hard drug transportation, and *credible* terrorist threats, specifically Islamist militancy, Croatia's only real threat outside of renewed Serbian aggression which for now seems unlikely.
12. Under a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency, will Croatian intelligence services begin to investigate and prosecute paid and unpaid foreign government's local agents of influence, such as those Croatian citizens who work at the State Department online English language strategic propaganda front Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) – including Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel who was Josipovic's first choice for Press Secretary – which until March 2012 was run by a middle aged Serbian American management employee of the State Department, almost certainly a Media Information Operations Officer, from Chicago, who was replaced by a younger Serbian American State Department employee from Chicago that same month?
13. Will a Kolinda Presidency see a full and thorough Croatian Parliamentary investigation into, and push for an EU investigation into the Hercegovacka Bank armed assault and literal OHR running into the ground under the control of Toby Robinson, which was nothing short than an attack on economic freedom of Croats in B&H, who have frozen accounts and or have to pay up to 50 percent of their accounts to withdraw the balance?
14. Will the return of the draft and a military reserve forces follow the Swiss or Nordic model, and will ranks at the time of discharge from other NATO military's be recognized for Croatian citizens who were born, lived or served outside of Croatia be potentially held for those Croats from abroad that would like to serve in Croatia's reserve forces?
15. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the total transparency of ALL non-governmental institutions' finances with no exceptions, to and include generously SDP government subsidized Documenta?
16. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see an independent study on to the war on drugs on a cost-and-effect basis, and would the decriminalization of hemp, marijuana and hashish, as well as special tax for them (to finance health prevention programs, including heavy drug use, intravenous drugs, etc.), be an item of consideration?
17. Would a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider a push for non-GMO agronomy for Croatian farmers and farming companies, and, along with industry, see a zero corporate tax for five years with a to be determined incremented increase in tax for corporations or individuals that invest into both green, natural agronomy and the industrial sector? Will her presidency resist the Monstanto and similar lobbies dictats, usually backed by strong Western governments, and prevent the destruction of one of Croatia's many strategic resources, its soil?
18. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see the closing of the office of the former President Mesic, and will she prevent such for Josipovic if she wins, and for herself upon serving her term?
19. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency see a focus on strengthening Croatia's gold reserves and ensuring Croatia's currency is gold and not a fiat currency-based?
20. Will Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic publicly call out President Josipovic for his hiring of national security threat Dejan Jovic, a pseudo-academic who made his career engaging in an endless apologia for Tito's Yugoslavia and greater Serbian aggression, whose work at and for the Royal Institute of Economic Affairs, a known MI6 media front was removed from the web conveniently prior to his hire, to the most important security position in the office of the presidency?
21. Would a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency consider to be the start of a graduated decrease in taxes with a flat tax of 15 percent for both individuals and corporations an end goal?
22. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency push for legislation, such as two years' without taxes, to stimulate permanent, or partial out-of-the-year, Diaspora returns, especially in formerly occupied and post-war areas?
23. Will Croatia's military under a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency be spared from certain powers' foreign policy neo-imperialist blunder-adventures, such as the lie-based Iraq war, or a military intervention into Syria which would only boost the power of ISIS?
24. Will a Grabar-Kitarovic Presidency lobby at all levels for the findings of Lt. Col. Dr. Charles Schrader and his seminal work, "The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia, 1992-1994," to be submitted into evidence and Lt. Col. Dr. Schrader be a witness as it seems it was politics, not law, that prevented both his work and him from appearing at the Plic et. al. trial?
I meant to say Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel – though Hedl as well writes for the State Department's strategic propaganda site, along with the entirely discredited Boris Pavelic, and the very whiny Josip Ivanovic and teary eyed Sven Mikelic.
BI is engaged in false advertising and client and reader deception, part of a larger agitprop program that is self-evident, but well hidden.
Mrs. Grabar-Kitarovic, my apologies to her.
Ina, I just want to wish you a belated happy New Year. Again, thank you for your continued dedication towards Croatia. How I wish a light would finally shine on our long-suffering country & Croats worldwide.
I have a request, from yourself or anyone from this blog willing to take it on – could you translate the article by Dan Rados to Croatian? I would attempt it myself, but I don't think I could accurately convey everything and it is a very important article to read. Lots of hateful opposition to the article is already seen (because truth hurts), but funnily enough, hardly any strong, factual argument presented against the points brought up, only accusations of Croatian racism and the very unique no-one-ever-thought-of-it-before Ustasha insult.
Kat the replies are hilarious. Any objective reader can see that Rados hit the nail on the head – hence the fallaciously "reasoned" venom.
This sensitive topic is something the Croatian media are not touching on of course, outside of small outlets.
This would be a great rhetorical question for Grabar-Kitarovic to repeat up to the elections, along with how it was possible that Dejan Jovic was ever considered, let alone almost served Josipovic's entire term, as his Chief Analyst, in addition to paid State Department propagandist Drago Zvonimir Carlos Pilsel, who was writing for Serbian American State Department managed strategic propaganda front engaged in false advertising, Balkan Insight, at the time of Josipovic's offer, the first choice for his Press Secretary.
The truth hurts and the truth dismantles the Yugotopia reality right before the eyes of its cultists. That is why any brutally honest questioning of Croatia's current reality is met with such hostility, and frantic anti-Croatia spin, but with little factually based arguments to disprove the writings of people such as Rados.
Of course the Croatian media doesn't speak – why would they turn on themselves when they can enjoy their ill-gotten power?
There are certainly many questions I would love to see Grabar-Kitarovic answer with the most honest, brutal of truths (questions you post much better than I could), but in the political climate we find ourselves in today, it will take a more diplomatic approach. Starting to dismantle the leftover Yugoslav power structures which hold Croatia hostage will come with resistance, hostility and venom; it's a process that will take a strong will, a Croatia-first mindset and absolute lustration.
Even just thinking about what it'll take to improve Croatia leaves me feeling overwhelmed. I dread to think about what another five years of Josipovic will do. Political struggle is nothing new for Croatia, but it would be delightful to see some positivity.
Could a paid placement of the translated article in a leading Croatian daily have an impact on the elections; any strong and well documented article that serves to better Croatia during the elections is a good thing. Count me in for a donation to help pay for the placement.
I think a good start for exposing the infowar / psyop against Croatia that SDP did and still supports, with the endless financing and complicity of the Anglo-American propaganda empire, who framed Lustration as "discrimination" in the 90s and since, would be to submit FOIA requests on all government and nor known government NGO front financing to Balkan Insight – who, while demanding transparency are untransparent about their financing sources – as well as any US government personnel being employed there, and their names and job positions.
Maybe that would be something Mr. Kuzmanovic and or Mr. Misetic would be interested in. RFERL, SETimes (wholly a EUCOM project) and above all, Balkan Insight, are part of a parallel reality projection and perception management campaign. As well as surveillance (of commentators).
Ina, Happy New Year. Zivjela.
Did you see this article re. the recent election results and those coming from Bosnia-Herzegovina ?
Hi Ina, I am an Australian citizen living in Sydney. I do also have Croatian citizenship…. am I able to vote on these elections from Australia?
Dober dan, Lijepi pozdravi iz SAD.
Review http://www.bbc.com/news/world-30614291
This 11 January runoff election follows the 28 December 2014 election. That Croatians must vote in government elections during the Christmas / New Years holiday is a travesty legacy of communist era anti Christian propaganda. All Yugoslav era laws are communist laws and now finally naša domovino Croatians and Croatian diaspora must elect, NOW, democracy government leadership to challenge these Yugoslav era communist laws!
I lived in Croatia most of 2009-12 and I personally know both 11 Sijecznj President candidates and have carefully considered that, in 2015, five years since previous election, Croatia is a significantly different nation. Thus, I have concluded that Kolinda's election is now critically appropriate to advance international awareness and interest in Croatia as a best choice destination for tourist travel, business investment and political support.
I am currently preparing a 2015-16 Croatia promotion project so heartfelt that it will mobilize all US Croatian diaspora (and worldwide) also with HR national media boosting enthusiasm & proactive events. It will enhance US recognition of Croatia as a world-class destination with attaining new demand for Croatian export products (also halved HR VAT taxes). Also, by 2017, to achieve Croatia is included in the USA Visa Waiver Program (VWP)! I invite your interest with follow my progress.
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In 1932, James Nicholas Talley, a son of Berrien County, GA and member of the Macon Bar, published a dramatic account of court proceedings that occurred in the 1840s in Troupville, county seat of old Lowndes County, Georgia. Samuel Mattox, son of Aaron Mattox, was charged in the September 7, 1843 murder of William Slaughter. The Studstill brothers, Jonathan and Emanuel "Manny" Studstill, sons of Rachel Sirmans and Hustus Studstill (aka Eustus Studstill), were also implicated in the crime. In 1836, Samuel Mattox had been the first to discover Indians were active in then Lowndes county near Ten Mile Creek, prior to the Battle of Brushy Creek. Ten Mile Creek, the locality of the Slaughter murder, lies slightly northeast of present day Ray City, GA.
Talley's narrative of the murder of the Slaughter boy and the trials that ensued are transcribed below, along with contemporaneous news clippings of the events and other supplemental information.
By J. N. TALLEY, of the Macon Bar
Late in the afternoon of September seventh, Eighteen Forty-three, a fifteen-year-old boy, William Slaughter, rode through the pine woods near Ten Mile creek. He was driving up a herd of cattle, for it was milking time at his father's pioneer settlement in the upper part of Lowndes.
At a distant clearing, the calves having been rounded up and penned, Samuel Mattox and his wife, Rachel, the milker, stood at the pasture bars. With them were two young men of the neighborhood, Jonathan Studstill and his brother, Manuel, who had come over to see Mattox and make plans for an early deer hunt. While they were waiting somewhat impatiently for the cows, Manuel displayed a gun which he had brought along, a rifle so rusty and antiquated in pattern that he declared, to the amusement of the group, it wouldn't kill a steer at fifteen steps. They were "all in a laugh," when the straggling herd, guided by the mounted boy, came into sight a quarter of a mile away.
The ford was soon reached, but there horse and rider stopped and, scattering out over a wiregrass level, the cows began to graze.
Observing from the calf lot this delay at the ford, Jonathan with a loud halloo ordered the boy to "come on." William doubtless did not hear the command, for he continued to await the arrival of a brother from across the creek. From his stand by the fence, possibly actuated by the instinct of the hunter, perhaps-for no reason at all, Mattox closely contemplated the distant youthful figure in the fading light dimly outlined against the dense foliage of the swamp. While Mattox was so engaged, Manuel handed him the rifle and suggested that he shoot. Jonathan likewise said "shoot," adding that the old firearm wouldn't hit the side of a house. "Moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil", as was afterwards charged, Mattox took aim and sighted, first however, it is said, deliberately resting the rifle barrel on a heap of brush. "Stop" screamed Rachel, but the shot rang out, and through the clearing smoke the unoffending lad was seen to fall from his saddle.
Dropping the gun and leaving Rachel at the pasture bars, the men ran to the ford and found the stricken boy. Horrified they discovered that the ball, speeding with unexpected force and accuracy, had penetrated his skull. Realizing that the report of the gun had carried far and thinking to avert suspicion, Jonathan and Mattox roughly pressed a pine stick through the open wound into the substance of the brain. Upon receiving this shock, the prostrate and apparently lifeless form arose and for one awful moment stood, face distorted by pain and wide unseeing eyes fixed upon Jonathan. Seizing the horse, which had remained standing by its unconscious master, Manuel rode away to summons help. Later when Samuel Slaughter, the brother, and [Captain John] Sanderson, a neighbor arrived, and the mother came up in her cart, they were told by Mattox and Jonathan how a random shot fired from across the creek had frightened the horse, how the boy had been violently thrown, and how in falling his head struck a pine knot. Pointing to the stick, Jonathan declared to the mother, "that snag proved your son's death."
Early next morning young Slaughter died. The locality where he was shot is still known locally as Slaughter's Ford and is some five or six miles from the present town of Nashville in Berrien county.
Cause of Death Revealed by Hole in Hat.
The remote rural community had been thoroughly aroused. Samuel Slaughter, who heard the shot, maintained that it came from the direction of the calf pen, for at the time he himself had been "across the creek." The Studstills, Mattox and Rachel did much talking, and after several days Mattox acknowledged that it was he who fired the "random shot" which frightened the horse. The theory of accidental death was being generally accepted until one day Moses Slaughter at home took down his son's hat and found a hole, clear cut and evidently made by a bullet. Then Sanderson, who had removed the stick, remembered that instead of being jammed it was loose and moved with the pulsations of the brain. The body was disinterred, a post-mortem made by Dr. Briggs of Troupville, and a rifle ball found imbedded in the left side of the head.
A Warrant issued for the arrest of Mattox, who promptly sought refuge in the thickets about a secluded pool, afterwards called "the Mattox pond," and now crossed by State Highway No. 11.
At this point in J. N. Talley's story we can add that Samuel Mattox was captured and taken to Troupville, GA where he was incarcerated in the county jail. During this time the Jailor in Troupville was Morgan Swain, who was also a blacksmith and innkeeper. Swain's Hotel was favored by courtgoers, amicus curiae, and the just plain curious who flocked to town on court days.
As it happened, Mattox was held with cellmates Tarlton Swain and John Strickland. Tarlton "Talt" Swain was the brother of Morgan Swain, and whereas Morgan represented law and order, Talt Swain and his posse were the community Bad Boys. It is said that Talt not being of a mind to take chances with a court trial, effected an escape. The Milledgeville Federal Union reported the fugitives' flight and the Governor's offer of reward for their capture:
A Proclamation
By Charles J. McDonald, Governor of said State.
Whereas, official information has been received at this Department, that SAMUEL MATTOX, charged with the offence of murder, and TARLTON SWAIN and JOHN STRICKLAND, charged with the offence of aiding prisoner to escape from Jail, in the county of Lowndes, have made their escape from the Jail of said county. Now in order that the said Samuel Mattox, Tarlton Swain and John Strickland, may be brought to trial for the offence of which they stand charged; I have thought proper to issue this my Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, for the apprehension and delivery of either, or THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for all three, to the Sheriff or Jailer of said county; and I do moreover, charge and require all officers, civil and military in this State, to aid and assist in apprehending and securing said fugitives.
Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of the State, at the Capitol in Milledgeville, this the 7th day of November, 1843, and of the American Independence the sixty-eighth.
CHARLES J. McDONALD.
By the Governor,
J. W. A. Sanford, Secretary of State,
Nov. 7 1843.
The Governor's offer of a reward was issued by Georgia Secretary of State John William Augustine Sanford. Sanford had been prosecutor Augustin H. Hansell's commanding officer in the Indian Wars of 1836.
It is interesting to note that the legal classified advertisement following the reward announcement above was for the law offices Samuel Spencer and H. S. Stewart. Spencer's presence in Troupville, or the lack thereof, would figure prominently in later court proceedings during the trial of Jonathan Studstill.
Mattox was apparently captured in a timely manner and remanded back to the jail at Troupville to stand trial.
Resuming the account by J.N. Talley:
Mattox Convicted
At Troupville, Mattox was put on trial for his life, convicted, and sentenced to death. The many vital questions argued by counsel were finally decided by the then highest judicial authority, a superior court judge, for there was no supreme court, and no appeal.
The execution took place in July (probably 1844) on a hill just east of the Withlacoochee river, and was conducted by sheriff John Towels, who happened to be an intimate friend of the victim. The hanging was witnessed by a crowd said to have been the largest, with one exception, ever assembled at Troupville, the exception being a circus in the late 50's which for all time set an attendance record at Lowndes' antebellum capital.
Milledgeville Southern Reporter
August 13, 1844
Troupville, Lowndes Co.,
July 30, 1844.
Messrs. Editors: – Samuel Mattox was found guilty of the murder of William Slaughter, at the last term of our Court, and sentenced to be hung on Friday last, which was done in presence of one thousand persons, as we suppose; and the very next day, (last Saturday.) Alexander McFail killed Ebenezer J. Perkins, by stabbing him. Thus it is among us: one scene of murder succeeds another in such rapid succession, that it is alarming and distressing. McFail has fled.
Truly yours, &c.
J. N. Talley noted in his narrative that, "The records of the Mattox trial were destroyed when the courthouse burned in June, 1858." From later news clippings, we know that one of the jurors was Ajaniah Smith, who later moved to Baker's Mill, FL.
Tifton Gazette
March 8, 1901
Mr. A. Smith, of Baker's Mill, Fla., is one of the old-timers in this section and was the first sheriff that Brooks county had. He also fought the Indians in this section, and served on the jury which hanged Samuel Mattox for the murder of a son of Moses Slaughter, in Berrien county many years ago. – Valdosta Times.
Talley documents that in the matter of the murder of William Slaughter the legal proceedings were an incredibly drawn out affair, stretching over a seven year period. His narrative picks up in 1848 with the trial of Jonathan Studstill, who allegedly aided and abetted the murder of Slaughter.
The Studstill Case
The Studstill brothers had been indicted for murder in the second degree, a capital felony. The charge against them was not tried until 1848, five years after the crime had been committed. Throughout this long period Jonathan languished in Troupville's little jail near the banks of the Withlacoochee. In the meantime Rachel Mattox had become Rachel Bailey. This comely, young woman seemed dogged by the spectre of crime. Her second husband [Burrell Hamilton Bailey] some years later was also tried for murder, but found not guilty. (SEE Showdown in Allapaha and The State vs Burrell Hamilton Bailey)
Troupville in 1848, boasted of three hotels and four lawyers. The resident bar, normally adequate for local needs, was more or less eclipsed by the semi-annual advent of the circuit riders. These perambulatory dignitaries, traveling in gigs and sulkies or on horseback, that year had begun their "Fall' riding at Dublin on the first Monday in September.
An Old Indictment
The following indictment had been returned against Jonathan and Manuel Studstill:
The Grand Jurors, etc., in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Manuel Studstill and Jonathan Studstill, both of the County and State aforesaid, with the offence of murder, as principals in the second degree. For that one Samuel Mattox, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil, on the 7th day of September, 1843, with force and arms in the County aforesaid, in and upon one William Slaughter, in the peace of the State then and there being, feloniously, unlawfully, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, then and there did make an assault, and that he, the said Samuel Mattox a certain rifle gun of the value of twenty dollars, the property of Manuel Studstill, then and there being found, the said rifle gun being then and there charged with gunpowder and a leaden bullet, which rifle gun he, the said Samuel Mattox, in both his hands then and there had and held at, against and upon him, the said William Slaughter, then and there feloniously, unlawfully, and of his malice aforethought, did discharge and shoot off; and that he, the said Samuel Mattox, with the leaden bullet aforesaid, by force of the gunpowder aforesaid, so by him, the said Samuel Mattox as aforesaid, discharged and shot off, him, the said William Slaughter, in and upon the left side of the head of him, the said William Slaughter, then and there feloniously, unlawfully, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did strike and wound, giving to the said William Slaughter, then and there, with the leaden bullet aforesaid, out of the said rifle gun, so as aforesaid discharged and shot off, in and upon the said left side of the head of him, the said William Slaughter, one mortal wound of the breadth of one inch and depth of two inches, of which said mortal wound he, the said William Slaughter, on and from the said 7th day September, in the year aforesaid, until the 8th day of September, in the year aforesaid, at the house of one Moses Slaughter, in the County aforesaid, did languish, and languishing did live, on which said 8th day of September, in the year aforesaid, about the hour of nine o'clock, in the morning, he, the said William Slaughter, at the house of said Moses Slaughter, in the County aforesaid, of the mortal wound aforesaid, died.
And the jurors aforesaid, on their oaths aforesaid, do say, that the said Manuel Studstill and the said Jonathan Studstill, on the said 7th day of September, in the year aforesaid, in the County and State aforesaid, then and there feloniously, wilfully, unlawfully, and of their malice aforethought, were present, aiding helping, abetting, comforting, assisting and maintaining the said Samuel Mattox in the felony and murder aforesaid, in manner and form aforesaid, to do and commit, contrary to the laws of said State, etc.
This indictment language, convoluted and legally flawed as it was, became an exemplar of indictments, and was cited in legal forms encyclopedias for decades afterwards. Although the Lowndes court records of this trial were also lost in the courthouse fire of 1858, we know from other court records that the foreman of the jury was Thomas M. Boston.
The Court Room
The State against Manuel and Jonathan Studstill, murder, was sounded for trial at the December term, 1848. The small scantily furnished court room was crowded. Within the bar a dozen or more lawyers occupied cowhide bottom chairs irregularly arranged behind plain pine tables. These tables supported sundry well-worn but highly prized volumes of law, a nondescript collection of ink wells and quill pens, and numerous resplendent stove pipe hats carefully deposited upside down. Trained under his uncles, Eli and Lott Warren, the presiding judge James Jackson Scarborough had become one of the outstanding lawyers of two circuits. His reputation at the bar, however, it is said, was surpassed by that which he attained while on the bench, and "there was a child-like simplicity about him which blended with his legal acumen and judicial ability made him a refreshing character." Augustin H. Hansell, solicitor general, appeared for the prosecution. The following year he was to succeed Scarborough as Judge of the Southern Circuit, a station which he occupied and conspicuously adorned during forty-three years. To assist in the prosecution had been retained Samuel Rockwell, rich in garnered experience and gifted in forensic oratory. On behalf of the Studstills appeared the learned Carlton B. Cole, twice judge of the Southern Circuit and destined in after years to preside over the courts of the Macon Circuit, and with Clifford Anderson and Walter B. Hill to form the first faculty of the Law School at Mercer University.
According to J. T. Shelton's Pines and Pioneers, Carlton B. Cole was assisted by Peter Love, John J. Underwood, Clark, and Samuel Spencer.
Procedure Reviewed
The State being ready, the first motion came from the defendants who asked for a severance and that they be tried separately. This granted, Hansell announced that Manuel's case would be taken up first. Cautiously refraining from announcing that Manuel was ready for trial, Cole informed the court of a pending plea of autrefois acquit. Issue being joined, there was a complete trial, which ended in a verdict against the plea. Thereupon Hansell announced that the State elected to put Jonathan on trial. This unexpected action was vigorously protested by Cole who insisted that the prosecution could not abandon the case on trial and take up that of Jonathan; Judge Scarborough held, however, that the disposition of the plea was merely the removal of an obstacle out of the way and not a part of the main trial, and directed Jonathan to plead. Cole now moved for a continuance of Jonathan's case on account of the absence of Samuel Spencer, a member of the Thomasville bar, who was then at Tallahassee in attendance on a meeting of the Presidential Electors, the first to be held in the new state of Florida. In support of this motion it was shown that one [William] Holliday had been subpoenaed by the State for the purpose of proving that in a conversation Jonathan had confessed his guilt. Spencer was expected to testify that Holliday afterwards admitted being "so beastly drunk" on the occasion in question as to have been utterly incapable of understanding the conversation or anything else. The motion was overruled, but the prudent Hansell during the trial was careful not to call Holliday as a witness, thus avoiding the effect of a favorable ruling which might constitute reversible error. These preliminaries disposed of, at a word from his attorney, Jonathan slowly walked to the prisoner's dock and awkwardly stood there for arraignment and plea. Already knowing what the State held against him, the prisoner soon tired of listening to the verbose indictment, and turned his gaze straight to a window by the judge's bench. There, beyond the moss draped trees fringing the Withlacoochee he saw the very hill where a few years before an enormous crowd had gathered to make of Mattox' hanging a Roman holiday.
With jury in the box the stage was set for the trial of Jonathan's case upon its merits.
The Trial Proceeds
The attention of all in the court room centered upon Augustin H. Hansell as he arose to open the case for the State. In appearance the young solicitor general was tall and strikingly handsome, clean shaven, his abundant hair worn rather long as was the fashion, and his dress, that affected by gentlemen of his profession – dark frock coat, trousers neatly fitting over high boots, waistcoat of gaily flowered silk, surmounted by the folds of a black stock sharply contrasting with his gleaming linen. The prosecuting attorney told the jury that if the State produced that proof the nature of which he had outlined, it would be their duty to find Jonathan guilty.
Before any evidence was submitted, the dignified Cole, addressing the judge, stated that even if the State's proof should measure up to the expectations of the learned solicitor general, yet the jury would be bound to acquit the prisoner, and moved the court for a directed verdict of not guilty. It was pointed out by Cole that although the indictment charged Jonathan with murder in the second degree, it nowhere directly charged Mattox, the principal, with the offense of murder. While the offense had been described in the body of the indictment, nevertheless, argued Cole, there was at its conclusion no express allegation that Mattox had murdered the deceased, and that the omitted expression, technical though it was, could be supplied by no other. 2 Hawk. Pl. Cr. 224.
The attorneys for the State could not controvert the proposition that this objection to the indictment was fatal at common law. They contended, however, that the rule laid down did not apply to a principal in the second degree, but could find no authority. Driven from the principles and precedents of the cherished common law, the prosecution was reluctantly forced to fall back upon that section of the penal code of 1833, which provided that every indictment shall be deemed sufficiently technical which states an offense in the language of the code or so plainly that the nature of the offense may be understood by the jury. Prince 658.
Notwithstanding the indictment was an imperfect specimen of the draughtsman's art, yet its meaning being understandable, the judge was constrained to overrule the motion.
Over the objection of the defendant, the indictment against Mattox, together with verdict and judgment and certain confessions made by him, were offered in evidence by the State, and then from the stand was narrated the story of how the boy while driving up his father's cattle had been shot at the ford on Ten Mile Creek.
Rachel, the chief witness for the prosecution, and perhaps the only woman in the crowded court room, found herself in a trying situation. On the one side was fixed upon her the stern gaze of the unrelenting old pioneer settler, and on the other she beheld the kindly pleading eyes of Jonathan, friend of her former husband. Under these circumstances she clung to the anchor of remembered truth and testified that she heard Jonathan and Manuel tell Mattox to shoot, that the gun wouldn't hit a boy at fifteen steps, but that she did not know whether her husband took aim or fired at random. Opposing her statement was that of Manuel who said he did not hand Mattox the gun, that so far as he saw or heard, his brother had nothing to do with the killing, and that he did not hear Rachel tell Mattox not to shoot,
The evidence concluded, on the law Cole argued that because of the great distance, the killing was not a probable consequence of the negligent act, therefore, the homicide was reduced to involuntary manslaughter as to which there could be no principal in the second degree. The State, however, contended that since the shooting itself was an unlawful act, the defendant was guilty, if the killing was even a possible consequence.
Argument Long and Loud
As soon as the first outburst of impassioned eloquence put the village on notice that jury speaking had begun, men came running from the square, the groceries, the taverns, and stables, and soon taxed the capacity of the courtroom. The anticipation of this probable consequence, it may be remarked without impropriety, did not prevent the aforesaid outburst from being made both early and loud, for it should be remembered that in those days the perambulatory attorney usually had in mind not only the case in hand but two others in the bush, and frequently also political preferment in the offing.
To most of those present, the jury speaking, which embraced argument, anecdote, pathos, oratorical flights, and sharp clashes between counsel, was the high point of the semi-annual entertainment presented by the court. The distinguished and resourceful antagonists no doubt made free use of all the material afforded by the case on trial, and we may imagine how in the disputation poor Rachel was bandied and buffeted back and forth – now thrown down as weak, simple, dominated, untrustworthy – now exalted as a paragon of unswerving truth and womanly virtue.
In his charge Judge Scarborough no doubt "summed up" the testimony as is still done in the United States Court, and may have expressed his opinion. Certain it is, the Judge stated to the jury if Rachel swore the truth the defendant was guilty. In view of the hard circumstances of this unusual case and the prominence given her testimony, it is not unlikely the jury conceived the practical question to their determination to be, Did Rachel swear the truth? Since an effort at her impeachment had miserably failed, it was perhaps, easy for them to conclude that she was a truthful witness, and, therefore, to decide, as they did, that Jonathan was guilty of murder.
The pageantry of the trial over, its excitement and suspense ended, a wave of sympathy appeared to move the hushed crowd of curious onlookers. As they heard the fearsome pronouncement of the judge, interrupted only by the stifled sobs of Rachel, and saw Jonathan standing at the bar, with his staring gaze fixed upon the barren hilltop beyond the Withlacoochee.
Conviction Affirmed
The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court sitting at Hawkinsville at the June Term, 1849. Studstill vs. State 7 Ga. 2.
In sustaining Judge Scarborough's ruling that the indictment was good, although it did not meet the technical requirements of the common law, Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin used the following language:
"The age is past for the civil and criminal justice of the country to be defeated by the absence or presence of one or more 'absque hocs,' 'then and theres,' videlicts,' etc. And for one, I rejoice to see edifices built, although they may be 'with the granite of Littleton, the cement of Coke, the trowel of Blackstone, and the Masonic genius of a hundred Chief justiciaries, and covered with the moss of many generations,' swaying beneath the sturdy blows so unsparingly applied by the hand of reform. Why should the spirit of progress which is abroad in the World, and which is heaving and agitating the public mined in respect to the arts, sciences, politics and religion, halt upon the vestibule of our temples of justice? Why not penetrate tearlessly, the precincts of the Bar and Bench, and remodel the principles and practice of the old common law, to accommodate it to the enlightenment of a rapidly advancing civilization? Our courts should co-operate cordially with the Legislature in building up a modernized jurisprudence, upon the broadest foundations." _Studstill vs. State, 7 Ga. 2.
Jonathan Receives Pardon
By an act approved February 6, 1850, the General Assembly granted to Jonathan Studstill a pardon and declared him entirely exonerated and discharged from the pains and penalties of his conviction and sentence "as fully, freely and entirely as if such conviction and sentence had never taken place or the offense committed."
After this disposition of Jonathan's case, apparently the prosecution against Manuel was abandoned.
AN ACT to pardon Jonathan Studstill of the county of Lowndes.
Whereas at a Superior Court held in and for the county of Lowndes, at December Term, 1848, Jonathan Studstill was convicted of the crime of murder; and whereas petitions from a large number of the citizens of said county of Lowndes have been presented to the General Assembly, asking the exercise of legislative clemency:
Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the said Jonathan Studstill be and he is hereby declared to be freely, fully and entirely pardoned, exonerated, and discharged from the pains and penalties of his said convictions and sentence as fully, freely and entirely as if such conviction and sentence had never taken place or the offence committed.
Approved, February 6, 1850.
The Dumb Act
It is significant that the same legislature passed a statute, approved February 21, known as "the Dumb Act of 1850,"which made it unlawful for any superior court judge in his charge to the jury to express or intimate his opinion as to what has or has not been proved or as to the guilt of the accused. There was at the time a considerable sentiment in favor of curbing the judiciary, but the Studstill case was probably one of the leading factors which crystallized that sentiment in Georgia.
The bill which became known as the Dumb Act was introduced by Richard H. Clark, then a senator living at Albany. Incidentally it is interesting to note that the author of the bill himself subsequently occupied the judicial station for twenty-two years. We are told this distinguished jurist would sometimes lose sight of the restraints thrown around the judge by our peculiar system of jurisprudence and appear to invade the province of the jury, and that most of the reversals of his judgment by the supreme court were based upon exceptions to alleged expressions of opinion before the jury. 99 Ga. 817
Judge Clark was familiar with the Studstill case, and in 1876 he referred to it as "one of the most interesting cases in the judicial annals of the State." (58 Ga. 610).
Old Troupville
Lowndes County in 1843, when young Slaughter was killed, lay between Thomas and Ware, extended from the Florida line northward ninety miles, and was very sparsely settled. Its first county seat Franklinville, on the Withlacoochee two miles west of Cat Creek, had been abandoned ten years before and a permanent capital established at Troupville, a village situated in the angle formed by the confluence of the Little and Withlacoochee rivers, some six miles distant from the site of the present city of Valdosta.
At the time of the Studstill trial in 1848 Troupville was still a small village the next decade however, being a gateway to the new state of Florida, and supposed to be on the line of a projected railroad from Savannah, its growth was almost phenomenal. At one time its bar consisted of thirteen members. Its newspaper The South Georgia Watchman, was the predecessor of the Valdosta Times.
When attending court, the judge and lawyers usually stopped at a tavern widely famed for its hospitality and presided over by a genial host, who was affectionately called "Uncle Billy Smith". Across the street from the inn was the public square. On this was situated not only the court-house and jail, but also the stables belonging to the stage line and a convenient "grocery".
The orderly decorum of the court room at Troupville was occasionally disturbed by energetic but short-lived fist fights on the square, but another disturbance occurring periodically had the more serious effect of halting the court. This was preceded by the shrill blasting of a bugle, followed by the measured" beat of galloping horses and the loud, reverberations of the lumbering stage coach from Thomasville, as it rattled across the boards of Little River bridge. The forced recess continued until the stage with four fresh horses crossed over the Withlacoochee bridge and departed on its long journey through the pines to Waresborough.
A source of interruption within the court room itself was the practice of having grand jury witnesses sworn in open court. From time to time, more or less inopportune, a grand juror escorting two or three witnesses would appear at the bar, where upon the business in hand was suspended until the oath could be administered. These interjected proceedings were narrowly watched, and not infrequently a bystander, whose conduct was about to be investigated would be seen to make a hurried departure for the purpose of securing temporary immunity from punishment should the grand jury return a presentment.
The general complexion of a court crowd in those times differed somewhat from that of the post bellum period in that the black population remained at home, excepting the family coachman. These privileged and interesting characters contributed their bit to entertain the transients on the square, while their influential masters within the courtroom occupied chairs and hobnobbed with the dignitaries of bench and bar.
Court Week always attracted a great concourse of people. Some attended from necessity or compulsion, some to enjoy the feast of erudition and eloquence; others to trade, traffic or electioneer, but to many it was an occasion for much drinking and horse swapping, and for indulgence in cock fighting, horse racing, and other "Worldly amusements" for which Troupville became somewhat notorious. Indeed, among the Godly, it was regarded as a wild town – almost as wicked as Hawkinsville.
A Vanished Town
Now beneath a spreading oak that shades the old Stage road, a granite marker points out to passers-by the place where once stood Troupville – the far famed capital of Lowndes.
Only the rivers there remain, eternally the same –
Black waters, musically slipping,
Whose ripples sway the gray moss dipping
From hoary overhanging, trees
That murmur to the whispering breeze
Old tales of ancient memories.
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